Monday August 13th, 2018
We have some sad news to share with you all today. The mother to one of our beautiful sponsored girls has sadly passed away from a life threatening illness this week. We attended the burial today.
We will ensure the primary school student (whose name is being kept confidential in this case) will receive the correct counselling and extra care to see her through this difficult time both in and out of school hours. We have also notified her sponsor of this who has expressed her love, sadness and condolences to the family.
Maisha Foundation are trying to seek funds to build a small medical clinic to help others suffering from life threatening diseases. To donate; please head to either our website, click the donate button on our Facebook page or text MSHA00 £XX (insert amount) to 70070.
Thank you
Wednesday August 8th, 2018
REPOST for those of you who didnt manage to see the previous video uploaded in July. We have now removed the backing track in our video highlights as this was blocked on Youtube.
We hope you enjoy watching our children having fun in the pool and playground. 😁
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYS9kEkyqjMPrevious video uploaded but now without the music
Sunday July 1st, 2018
Happy Weekend to all our supporters!
As promised, please find a video highlighting the fun had by all our children on this years Jamhuri Day on the below link.
These children really do fill our hearts with love and joy. We hope the video also makes you smile. 😁
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHGDUgFIBM0Beautiful music by Diamond - African Queen
Wednesday June 27th, 2018
Today we have some utterly heart-breaking news to share with you all. One of our beautiful primary school students was barbarically raped by two sick and disgusting individuals. This is a stark reminder of just how unsafe and unsecure many African children live in on a daily basis. For legal purposes, their identities will remain anonymous but she was simply going to the shop one evening to get some food for her family, a basic human necessary to survive when the predators attacked and padlocked her inside a small, dark room for over 12 hours. An utterly terrifying experience for such a young girl who must have feared for her life not knowing what was about to take place.
Thankfully due to her consistent desperate loud cries for help throughout the night and morning, the neighbours eventually spread the news of screams and the padlocked door was broken down, the girl was freed and one of the guys was caught and arrested. This however was still too late to action and one of the men managed to escape.
This girl, is such a happy, joyful and innocent girl and it sickens us to the core that this has happened to her and will inevitably change her both physically, emotionally and more importantly; mentally which is why she is already attending counselling and has undergone numerous medical tests to prevent falling pregnant (as no protection was used by either guy), catching HIV, or any other diseases.
We are fully supporting the pending legal court case to bring these disgusting creatures to justice. The families of the perpetrators have since tried to settle the matter by bribing the girl’s family to prevent a court case. This is simply not good enough and will not prevent these animals striking another young girl. This is just another insult to cover up the crime.
Maisha Foundation has been and is still trying to raise funds to build a safe and secure project on our 6 acres of land where we can protect as many vulnerable and neglected children as possible from ever being at risk. We desperately need your help to make this a success.
Please donate anything you can, even £2 will make a difference. Link is:
maisha-foundation.org/fundraise/donate/ and click on the donate through mydonate bt image.
Let’s prevent this from happening to another young child.
Asante Sana
Alun & Priscilla
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Absolutely horrific but still happens all over the world unfortunately
Really sad indeed
Sunday June 24th, 2018
Please find just some of our (many) favourite photos from our day out with our children. It was a very busy and productive day where we treated all our sponsored students to new uniform and shoes followed by a day of swimming, food and drinks, finishing the day in the playground. Unfortunately the planned sports competition didnt take place so we hope to compete (and win!) next time round. A video of the children enjoying themselves will be uploaded later in the month.
Such a shame facebook has muted the music over the slideshow, it was a lovely song
These are such lovely photos, thank you for sharing with us. The work done is amazing and so valuable for these children ❤️
Friday June 1st, 2018
Happy Madaraka Day from our beautiful children
Friday April 13th, 2018
Apologies for the silence so far in 2018, we have however been very busy behind the scenes. We have built a temporary site house for a watchman and caretaker to provide 24/7 security to our plot and to live in.
We have also finished building a water storage unit which will cater for up to 12,000 litres of water which is pumped from the nearby river. This will cater for us to start farming to raise funds for future building.
This has taken a few more months than planned to prepare as we needed to plough and harrow the land, clear all the thorns and wild bushes covering the whole 6 acres and finish chain linking the full perimeter; heavy rains sadly thwarted our access to the plot. We will shortly also be constructing a security gate as a further measure of safety.
Our next step will be to plant our 50,000 tree seeds, create and maintain a vegetable patch and to grow and sell off grass.
Our sponsored children are continuing to do very well in their schools and we have had a second intake of our graduates joining universities, an absolutely fantastic and rewarding feeling. More news to come in May / June where we hope to also take our children out for another day full of fun!
We would like to finally thank every single one of you for your support and love and I would like to personally thank both Priscilla and Andrew for making all of this happen.
Sunday December 24th, 2017
As 2017 is coming to a close with KCSE results released and Christmas festivities well underway, I would like to wish all our sponsors, children and colleagues a very happy Christmas. It has been another fantastic year working with you all and videos like this one makes it all worthwhile; when a child we have supported through their academic lives reaches the end of our programme.
We congratulate both Felix (in the video) and Kelvin for graduating high school with a B+ and wish them the very best for the next step they are about to embark upon. We will see you all and look forward to 2018.
Many thanks
Alun - Chairman
(Apologies for the poor quality of the video, technology is not my friend at the moment and isn't allowing me to blur out some of the background noise or add our logo to it!)
